South by Java Head /
Alistair MacLean.
- New York : American Reprint Co., 1975, c1958.
- 288 p ; 23 cm.
Reprint of the 1958 ed. published by Fawcett Publications, Greenwich, Conn.
A combination of soldiers, nurses, civilian refugees, a young boy, and a spy attempt to escape the burning city of Singapore aboard the "Kerry Dancer," a freighter staffed by an infamous captain and crew, the "Viroma," which is sunk, and eventually in open boats as they are chased across the South China Sea.
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